two men who took very different paths in life, with elaine quijano. >> reporter: for a brief moment, exchanging smiles in a courtroom friday. james "whitey" bulger, finally facing justice, 16 years after he fled, and his younger brother, william, once considered one of the most powerful politicians in the state. in the working class neighborhoods of south boston known as southie, both men once ruled their respective worlds. white whiteiest head of the fearsome irish american winter hill gang while william rose to the american state senate. >> you are loyal to your friends and family and without that there's nothing. >> reporter: ultimately that loyalty may have cost william his job, after his career in the senate william was forced out of his position as president of the university of massachusetts in 2003, after being questioned during a congressional investigation. >> i do not know where my brother is. i do not know where he has been.

elaine quijano, cbs news, indianapolis. >> pelley: after working on elaine's story, we were curious aboutese presidential condolence letters. mrs. patricia sherman of fayetteville, north carolina, was kind enough to share with us the letter she received dated january 22, 2010. the letter from president obama begins "dear patricia, i am deeply saddened by the loss of your husband, sergeant benjamin w. sherman, u.s. army. no words can ever ease your sorrow, but please take comfort in knowing that he has honored us all beyond measure." this is the president's signature. the white house tells us that he signs each letter personally. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org you're playing a different game tonight. the parts >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> trying to sell in how about buy? either way you're playing a different game tonight. the bartz of the bay area where the market just made an important shift. >> what the ba

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elaine quijano has her story. >> reporter: at first glance, it's the kind of art you'd expect to see.she's an abstract expressionist, but also a surrealist. >> reporter: the pieces come with sophisticated titles. butterfly neb nebuli. escape from the cosmic zoo. a closer look reveals hints about the artist's identity, a little heart, a pink pony and handprints. she is 4 1/2-year-old aelita andre. >> how does it make you feel when you paint? >> very special. >> reporter: the young australian is already a veteran in the art world. at age 2, she had a body of work and now she has her first solo exhibition in the united states. the gallery director was impressed by the art, the imagination and use of color before she learned her age. >> i think she is good. and not just good for a 4 1/2-year-old. >> reporter: but the high quality of the pieces has led to skepticism from some who question whether the paintings are truly hers. her father insists they are authentic and says he videotapes her working on her pieces. even before the exhibit opened, four of the paintings sold. each cost around $

but as elaine quijano shows us, she is only a toddler! >> reporter: at first glance, it's the kind of art you would expect to see at a manhattan gallery. >> she is an abstract expressionist but she is also a surrealist. >> reporter: the pieces come with sophisticated titles. lapis la souly. butterfly nebula, escape from the cosmic zoo. a closer look revealed hints about the artist's identifity, a little heart, a pink pony and handprints. she is 4.5-year-old alida andre. how does it make you feel when you paint? >> uhm, very special. >> reporter: the young australian is already a veteran in the art world. at age 2, she had a body of work and now she has her first solo exhibition in the united states. what are your favorite colors? >> blue, yellow, green. >> reporter: the gallery director was impressed by the art, the imagination and use of color before she learned alida's age. >> i think that she is good and not just good for a 4.5-year- old. >> reporter: but the high quality of the pieces has led to skepticism from some who question wheth

elaine quijano looks at how one principal is already turning things around. >> reporter: for the students of this elementary school in one of america's most troubled districts -- >> boys and girls -- >> reporter: this year has brought hope through a new radical approach. >> for i am a wiggins college preparatory lab school -- >> reporter: the newly named wiggins college preparatory lab school in camden, new jersey, is a turnaround school, part of president obama's $3 billion initiative to remake more than 700 of the nation's worst performing schools, to receive $2.6 million in federal grants, wiggins was mandated to undergo major changes by retraining teachers, overhauling the curriculum, with intense reading and math programs, and bringing in specialists to help struggling kids. the most drastic change? firing the old principal and bringing in lana murray, who has to show results by june or risk losing federal funding. >> i'm up for the challenge so i'm excited about it. we have a lot of issues here in the school, but we can do it. >> reporter: her efforts are already showing results. la

elaine quijano, cbs news, boston. >> mitchell: later, another claim of civilian casualties from nato fire in libya. how one mayor would spend his share of any future peace dividend. and a top chef has her own recipe for comforting childhood cancer parties. those stories and more when the cbs evening news continues. >> mitchell: libya charged today that nato airstrikes have again caused civilian casualties. officials claim 15 people were killed by a missile that hit a bakery and restaurants and other buildings. nato says it has no indication civilians died in the attack. syrian security forces are said to have killed five protesters today. funerals for some of the 20 activists today and the biggest day of protest since the uprising erupted 102 days ago. more syrians tried to escape, with hundreds crossing into neighboring lebanon as turkey temporarily closed its border. for more perspective on the latest developments in syria, we are joined in providence, rhode island, by former undersecretary of state, nicholas burns. with the situation in syria seemingly getting worse by the day, ma

today, elaine quijano tells us that the government gave us a look at new warning labels that it hopesill get smokers to quit. >> reporter: the graphic images of rotting teeth, damaged lungs, and even a smoker's corpse, shocked the longtime smokers we showed them to, like michael magistro. >> you're killing yourself. i mean, look at that. staples in them. that's nasty. >> reporter: by fall 2012, the new warning labels will have to appear on the top, front, and back halves of cigarette packs, as well as 20% of cigarette print ads. tobacco companies are suing the government, arguing the new large label makes their logos unreadable. new york city's aggressive tv ad campaign, along with higher cigarette taxes and smoking bans in many places have led to a decline in smoking in new york, a 26% drop since 2002. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: while smoker nikki hulley is disturbed by the images she's not convinced it will help people beat such a powerful addiction. >> i want to say yes but it's so easy to look away. >> reporter: do you think you'll stop because of this? >> i should stop because

elaine quijano has our story. >> reporter: at first glance it is the kind of art you would expect toa manhattan gallery. >> she's an abstract expressionist but she's also a surrealist. >> reporter: the pieces come with sophisticated titles. "lapis lazuli," "butterfly nebula," "escape from the cosmic zoo." a closer look reveals hints about the artist's identity, a little heart, a pink pony, and hand prints. she is four and a half-year-old aelita andre. >> how does it make you feel when you paint? >> very special. >> reporter: the young australian is already a veteran in the art world. at age two she had a body of work and now she has her first solo exhibit in the united states. >> what are your favorite colors? >> blue, yellow, green. >> reporter: a gallery director angela dibello was impressed by the art, the imagination and use of color before she learned a alita's age. >> i think that she is good. and not just good for a four and a half-year-old. >> reporter: but the high quality of the pieces las lead to skepticism from some who question whether the paintings are truly aelita's. h

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elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> joining us is captain chesley sullenberg sullenberger, makinge. could this disaster have been averted with better training by these pilots? >> it's important that we design our air flight and procedures and train our pilots in such a way that they can solve whatever problem they may face. what the industry is going to do is look at these questions and answer them well. i think we need to give our pilots more challenging training more often and give them a chance to practice these important fundamental skills the ability to quickly demonstrate mastery of the airplane itself and systems and whatever situation they may face. >> how do you train pilots for the unexpected like this? is there a specific drill that works hand in hand with a problem experienced on flight 447? >> as aircraft accidents become more rare, their causes may become more unique. we have to have this well intentionized set of fundamental skills we can bring to bear very quickly. one of the things we need to do is give them more exposure. i can tell you from firsthand experience

as cbs news correspondent elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: when computer hackers forced a shutdownnformation was at risk. but internet security experts say it was still a huge embarrassment for the government's top spy agency. >> it's never a good thing when you're the cia and your website has data talking about a hacker. >> reporter: while the attack was deemed harmless the same can't be said for the breach on government contractor lockheed martin last month. that's when the nation's top weapons manufacturer discovered the system allowing employees remote access may have been compromised. some suspect foreign governments were responsible for this attack. >> now, with the governments getting involved it's moved from the personal attacks to now going after the government attacks and going on a much bigger, much more scary level. >> reporter: it's this threat of foreign cyberespionage that's propted the national security agency to announce it is stepping in to assist government contractors like lockheed martin better secure their data. a wave of attacks has hit private businesses as

cbs news correspondent elaine quijano has that story for us this morning. , good morning. >> good morning to you, chris. well the fda is unveiling new, graphic warnings that beginning in september 2012 will have to be displayed on the front and back of cigarette packs. and appear on all advertisements. anti-smoking advocates are smalling it an historic achievement to combat smoking and hope the regulations will be especially helpful in keeping america's young people away from cigarettes. americans will soon be facing a very ugly picture when they reach for a cigarette. for the first time, the fda unveiled nine graphic picture warnings which will have to appear on the top 50% of the front and back of cigarette packs. and cover at least 20% of all cigarette ads. >> it's the most dramatic change in warnings of cigarettes in the history of our nation. >> reporter: for decades, a written warning was required on cigarette packaging. but anti-smoking advocates say the new warnings are long overdue. and will help target the most vulnerable, the young and uneducated.

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. >>> right now let's go to elaine quijano with the latest. >> good morning guys.ed to fuel the massive wildfire in eastern arizona later today. the blaze has destroyed more than 600 square miles and more than 30 homes. some 10,000 people were forced to flee to safety. it's arizona's second largest wildfire ever. adding to the trouble, high levels of soot blowing in various directions. >>> ash from a volcano in chile is hampering air travel across parts of south america and even as far away as new zealand. rivers near the volcano are so hot they're steaming. the result of the ash and volcanic rock that's fallen into them. the 113-degree water temperature is killing fish. recent heavy rains mean those rivers could soon overflow their banks. >>> two new government warnings on cancer are out. "the new york times" reports scientists have officially listed formaldehyde as a carcinogen. they also question whether styrene in large quantities could be cancer forming. styrene is used in bathtubs, boats, plastic plates and cups. >>> they take wiffle ball seriously in kalamaz

. >>> right now, we want to go to cbs news correspondent elaine quijano with more of the morning's headlinesng. secretary of defense robert gates is making an unanno karzai, who has been angered by nato air strikes that have caused civilian casualties. >>> a militant group in pakistan says a usair strike killed a key operative. one of the most wanted militant leaders in pakistan, described as a chief of military operations in pakistan, and a possible replacement for osama bin laden. >>> family and friends of a u.s. hiker held in iran are fasting today to protest his second birthday in a foreign prison. josh fattal turns 29. he and his fellow hiker, shane bower, have been jailed since 2009 on espionage charges. sarah shourd was released last year. the three say they inadvertently crossed into iran from iraq. >>> in texas, public prayer will be permitted at a san antonio area high school graduation today. after a federal appeals court reversed a ban issued by a federal judge earlier this week. the three-judge panel granted an emergency appeal filed by the school's valedictorian, angela hi hi h

elaine quijano, cbs news, boston. >>> joining us now from boston is eddy mckenzie, a former enforcerhitey bulger and author of "street soldier." good morning. >> morning. >> you say basically whitey bulger took very good notes, kept a lot of records, in particular a lot of records on law enforcement. what are we going to hear if he opens up in this case and tells us everything that he knows? >> i believe somewhere out there there's a hole dug with a big portfolio full of a lot of dirty public officials and maybe some dirty law enforcement officials that whitey bulger has had for years. waiting for this day of his capture, so that he can use it for some sort of bargaining tool. >> do you have a sense of who some of those officials might be? >> i live in boston, i'm not about to say anything like that. >> so, you're actually afraid to, even at this point, now that he's been taken into custody, to say anything. what does that say about who this man was and what your relationship with him was? >> well, i'm not afraid to say anything because of whitey bulger because he's just a rat. he's